Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The number of people with diabetes is increasing globally; hence necessitate identifying diabetes earlier and more efficiently. Recently, American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended the use of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) as an alternative to glucose based criteria for diagnosing type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. Hence, we aimed to evaluate the discrepancies between HbA1c- and glucose-based criteria for diagnosis of diabetes and pre-diabetes in Nepalese populat...